It went out at the 5? It looked like a touchback on TV.

M&BR has placed its first FutureCast prediction of the Dusty May era.

An abbreviated Stock Report on offense this week.
Wanted to share the film cuts I made from the game.
We saw our RB1/RB2 theory perfectly executed and came away with more questions than answers to what the offense will be with Alex Orji under center.
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An RB familiar to Michigan who may play with a chip on Saturday.
All-B1G WR that UM may need to cover without Will Johnson.
The safety replacing Tyler Nubin, who leads the team in TKLs and INTs
Three Minnesota players to watch against Michigan.
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As I was reading the more mainstream websites for their various opinions on Michigan’s dominating victory over, whether you think they were overrated or not, they were the 11th ranked team that had shown they fixed their defensive issues with the transfer portal and a competent, innovative DC, while their portal QB for this season was being mentioned as a potential Hiesman candidate before Michigan shut him down except for the 4-5 unreal throws that only a guy with “it” can make. (cont’d)

Sidenote: I think Riley is gonna shift to going after the best transfer QBs with a proven record, than waste all that time recruiting on a 5 star guy that’s a 50/50 coin flip he’ll be a player or a bust, who has to courted all year..wasting valuable time, and needs even more time in development to maybe become a star player. I hope Sherrone Moore and Michigan adopts this policy as well. If you’re gonna pay 2+ million for a top-10 QB, it’s better to pay a guy with a résumé of production with 2 years of reality-based eligibility, then spend more cash for a 5 star guy that you have to waste an enormous amount of time constantly fighting off other schools until signing day, then spend all that time developing him for likely 2 years of eligibility before he leaves for the draft..provided he actually becomes a real player. I’m all about efficiency. Make paying for a top QB in the portal priority #1 in off seasons we need one, and recruit underrated guys with something special about them to fill out the QB room. That way Michigan never finds itself in this position again, and allows for finding an overlooked guy who becomes a Heisman candidate top-5 QB in his senior year that has not only happened at Michigan in the past, but seems to happen nearly every year in college. Brian Griese was a walk-on and eventually was drafted In the 1st round by the Broncos, where he ended up passing for close to 40,000 yds in Denver, and more at the other teams he played on before retiring. Baker Makefield was a walk-on at OU, parlayed that into the starting job over a highly rated QB room, won the Heisman, and after maturing, has turned himself into a franchise QB in Tampa. Michigan should always look for those guys, but as far as getting a top guy, buying from the gourmet beef section for the high quality cuts in the portal butcher shop in 20 minutes beats all the time, effort, and uncertainty of recruiting in 2024, which in “beef shopping terms” is an arduous task of finding the right local ranch selling at any one of a dozen possible local farmer’s markets. Their product is sold way above market price for supposedly grass fed imported Swiss cattle that could end up tasting like formaldehyde. That’s the risk you take paying 3 million for a top 5 recruit that may end up being a total bust. No, Moore and his OC should portal shop first for a QB who has proven he can win, then fill out the QB room with ignored, overlooked talent.

Back to point: So much for all of that “Wink is Brown 2.0” stuff eh? Rational guys here said it was going to take time for all the young guys to “get” Martindale’s version of the Michigan “Ravens” inspired defense, and form him to see which players can do what in his defense in a full game of live reps. To dish out that crushingly physical, super aggressive performance that only gave up scores due to blown coverage mistakes made by inexperienced players in the defensive backfield, was pretty amazing to accomplish in Michigan’s 4th game, where they’re used to playing their 4th cupcake team in order to work out the issues on the team before B1G play. This year, after losing 80% of the starting 22 that went 15-0 and won the NC, had to play the no 1 , senior loaded, team in Texas in their 2nd game, and the 11th ranked Trojans in their 4th game before B1G 18? Play begins. Even Fresno State, the opener, is proving to be no joke. For Michigan to emerge from the first third of the season 3-1 and ranked, given the fact that they totally screwed the pooch with that stupid QB battle in camp that wasted 6 MONTHS of developing an offense around Orji, who was obviously the QB after spring practice, and definitely wasted any chance to beat Texas with Warren, when the could have had a real shot with an offense that held onto the ball to let the defense rest, and has transformed an inexperienced OL, who are all natural run play maulers, into a dominating meat grinder that will make even the best DLs quit under the constant brutal assault. IThe offense has been totally transformed with Orji at QB. And for those of you still holding on to the false narrative that Alex can’t throw, over a dozen college football analysts all said they knew Orji can make any throw on the field and has and Anthony Richardson type arm, able to make 60 yd throws on the run. It comes down to a matter of when Michigan needs him to throw to win. They didn’t against USC, and we all know Moore likes to make statements like calling the same play over and over because Penn State couldn’t stop it, and they didn’t need to steal signs when you don’t care what defense they called, Michigan was going to run the ball.

Against Minnesota, I suspect we will see more passing plays called. I just don’t want to see Alex asked to make horizontal throws for WR screens or small gains on short out routes. He doesn’t have that type of arm, nor does it take advantage of his threat to run. He is a vertical thrower off some play action throws up the seams, on deep outs running bootlegs, throwing screens, and hitting posts and crossing routes. We’ll see. They already almost blew the season before it began picking Warren over that monstrous dual threat ++ athlete QB Orji is. At 3-1, the dream of returning to the B1G Championship first, before I entertain thoughts of anything further, is a realistic possibility. Michigan will be all but certainly not lose again before Oregon plays in Ann Arbor, likely at night, on a hopefully freezing November 2nd, and are in for a rude introduction to B1G football in the cold grey sleeting/snowing football Saturdays in the Northern Midwest in November.

Call me crazy, (you’d be medically correct) but suddenly I’m feeling a B1G Championship game that would be the first possible revenge rematch of “The Game” only a week later for a top 4 seed with a bye or a likely 7th-10th seed range and hosting a 1st round playoff game.

I know what I saw in that USC game. I saw a team transformed by putting in the QB who should have been starting all along. And for the agenda driven Wink haters…he gave y’all a better “kiss my hairy beanbag” set of quotes that I could ever come up with. Whomp There it is haters…lol.

That’s all for now. See y’all after the Minnesota beat down.

Go Blue! - Argus

Teamed up with the Minnesota site for a Q&A to give Gopher fans some insight on what to expect from the Wolverines this weekend.

Was asked about the Michigan offense, which players who are flying under the radar/not getting as much love despite playing well, what Minnesota would have to do to come away with a win in Ann Arbor, and more:

No. 12 Michigan (3-1) will host its fifth-straight home game to start the 2024 campaign when it welcomes Minnesota (2-2) to the Big House on Saturday.

Previewing the Gophers, how they match up to Michigan and making a prediction:

Former Wolverine Jerry Diorio joins the show and breaks down the film as he saw it verses USC last week. Jerry also weighs in on Dave Portnoy saying he wants to commit millions in NIL to the QB position.
Breakdown
Open 00:00-2:35
Portnoy NIL 2:36-25:38
Minnesota 25:39-34:23
Film analysis 34:24-1:06:49
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Hey guys, posting for those who may not have seen prior. We just put out highlights from the Five-Star in Jacksonville.

Life isn't fair. It makes me so sad and he has two young children as well. This one hits me really hard because I'm a cancer survivor.

When asked about the Derwin James tackle that led to James' suspension Harbaugh made statements about the necessity of protecting the players from helmet-to-helmet hits;

Then he landed this gem:

(I paraphrase) "The problem with avoiding hits to the head, is due to the head residing between two shoulders...".

I love that dude.

Big Ten and SEC to meet in Nashville

The Big Ten and SEC are meeting in Nashville, likely to continue steps away from the NCAA and towards the Big Ten & SEC running college football.

Michigan brining the National Championship to the Big Ten gives us more leverage in this relationship with the SEC, which I'm sure Tony Petitti and others realize now.

As well as certain other positions. Who will step up?

Michigan needs to get on this.

UNLV's QB who is actually pretty good opted to redshirt this season highly likely with the intent to hit the transfer portal.

Drop that bag of cash and boost our QB room.

I believe both Tuttle & Warren will be gone after this season as well. We need to reload and upgrade with higher quality QBs.

Any other quality QB's expected to hit the portal this year?

Matthew Sluka opts to redshirt

Is his season over is he healed will he play at all?

This is going to happen in more instances, this will be the new sitting out the bowl game.

His handler was on Twitter last night saying he was better than both Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant LOL

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Michigan makes the Final Cut for 2025 SF Trey McKenney. Local kid who is a gotta have it type of player for Dusty May.

Georgetown has done a really good job here, the kid grew up a Michigan fan which sometimes can be the ultimate decider, not always. May and staff have also done an excellent job as well.

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wanted to share a quick note to our right hand man, @Trevor McCue.

Happy birthday man! Enjoy your day.

Along with USC and Georgetown. Says he plans to make his decision around December.

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I had a dream Dusty May left Michigan for Providence, lol! All the transfers re-entered the portal with the intent to follow him.

Just to give a little background, my wife has been in the hospital for the better part of 3 weeks now and we're still not out of the woods yet. My wife was admitted on 9/6 at CMC Main (Charlotte, NC) and stayed in the hospital until 9/13. She was discharged and then she had to go back to the hospital on 9/16 in Chapel Hill, NC and has been in ICU since then. We're hoping she gets to come home this week but nothing is guaranteed. Her hospitalization was caused my Raynaud's flair up causing her basically to lose all feeling in her fingers and toes as well as them turning purple most of the time (extremely painful due to decreased blood flow....basically like your feet and hands falling asleep and then you get that pins and needles feeling but they say it's basically like 100x pain wise....also worried about possible eventual loss of digits). They still have NO CLUE what caused such a flare up. It's been a rough last 8-10 years for her health wise (liver transplant in Dec 2019 due to an autoimmune disease called PSC....after that she got diagnosed with a kidney disease called C3GN which could lead to an eventual kidney transplant.....got diagnosed with Crohn's last year along with having a heart attack last October as well).


Anything help is GREATLY APPRECIATED. Prayers are DEFINITELY needed and wanted.

Thanks for reading my message and thanks to all you guys for making this a great community....


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